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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02
a Wheat Rival.

There is considerable discussion at the
present time regarding the Importance of
India as competitor of the United
States in the wheat markets of the world.
1t is well determined fact that for sew
eral years from eight to ten per cent of
the wheat crop of India has been annual
ly exported, but there are rs yet no ac-
curate statistics by which we can tell
with any certainty whether this export is
increasing or not. Ii has been generally
supposed that the light volume of the
wheat export from India which now
amounts to about 100000 bushels an
nually, is due to the lack of Transports
ton facilities, and that with the extern
sion of railways to the seaports
from the interior, there would be
corresponding gain in the for
eign trade. In spite of the steady in
crease of rail- Dad facilities in India, the
statistician of our national department OF
agriculture, has come to the conclusion
that this has not yet occasioned any
and marked increase in the export of
grain: that 1.-The conservatism, and
crude methods of cultivation, and neces-
! sity for other food supply for population
more than four times that of the United
States" need produce no anxiety to the
American wheat-grower
In giving this opinion, the statistician is
in harmony with the judgment of Sir
James Card, who in times past if not at
the present, has been a standard authority
on all questions relating to the develop
ment and resources of India. On the 9th.
er hand it may be observed that there are
many careful students of wheat statistics
who do not concur in this optimistic view
but regard the wheat competition of India
as a serious factor in the near future.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02
The Infamous Glenn Bill.

In how many prominent historic con
tests aud events in our country has Yer
mont furnished active participants Our
attention is called to this fact by cores
pendent in New Haven, Vt, in connec-
ton with the probable passage of the
"Glenn" bill by the Georgia Legislature.
The bill forbids under heavy penalties, the
education of white and black children in
the same institution and Is especially aim
ed at Atlanta University, in which half a
dozen white children Of the professors are
taught In the same classes with the color
ed pupils, Especial interest in the pro.
gress of the contest is taken in New Ha
ven and its vicinity, from the fact that
the pastor of a colored church in Atlanta,
Rev. Evarts Kent, who is Immediately
concerned in the matter, is a son of the
late Cephas II. Kent Familiarity known in
Vermont as Father Kent" who passed
to his reward in the town of New haven,
February I'd, 1885.
1t is matter of history, that in anti
slavery agitation times this stout old
Christian was driven from his pulpit for
advocating the doctrine of no property
rights in man and the following note by
of the colored church has inherited the
spirit of his sire. A rumor assigning a
puerile reason for the sending of the son
of Mr.. Kent to the University having APP
peared IN the Atlanta Constitution, Mr..
Kent sent that paper the following ring
ing note
"ELitorS Constitution Il learn through
your columns this morning that my son
attends Atlanta University because he
| is Il PLAYMATE of the other white children
who attend" | know of no responsible
authority for such a statement.
NV son attends Atlanta University be
| cause in the Judgment of his parents, il
affords "A technical and intellectual train
! ing more thorough and varied than that
of any other school in the city because
| in practice it aCcOrdS with the most en-
| hghtened public sentiment of the country
and because under existing circumstances
his presence there bears plain witness to a
| faith in the divine doctrine of universal
brotherhood. ENAbTS KENT.
July ~, 1881
Rev. A. p. Foster, d. d., in a recent ar
ticle IN Vermont paper says that the At
lauta faculty are of the stuff OF which
martyrs are made. And if, as DR.. Foster
suggests, we may yet see the Atlanta fac
ulty working in IA chain gang" his note
| indicates that pastor Kent would not be
"found wanting"
Our correspondent adds that the good
old mother and spirited sister OF Mr..
Kent, residing in New Haven. almost eX-
ult in the possibility that the beloved son
and brother may be considered worthy to
suffer persecution in such case and if
it comes we cannot doubt that he will
prove true to his Vermont blood and lin
cage
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02
TOlStOi.

Since HOwells gave judgment in the
July Hdrper'S that Tolstoi was the
greatest living writer and incomparably
the greatest writer of fiction who has
ever lived controversy over this remarka.
BILE Russian has waXed hotter and hotter
The American reading public is as yet
but slightly acquainted with the works of
Tolstoi, and for that reason no literary
opinion in recent years has produced
greater commotion than this extraordin-
airy praise from the pen of Mr..
Howells. There is perhaps no American
writer who stands nearer to the people
than does Mr.. Howells. His immense
constituency are correspondingly interest
ed in his judgments and wish to know
more of him of whom their countryman is
singing such praise. During the past year
Tolstoi's reign has been brilliant
one. Even by many who care not or
know not of the literary excellence of
Tolsto's fiction, he is regarded as savior
come for the salvation of men, with his
teachings of work, equality and
brotherhood" Here and there, how
ever, as is always the case
when great character appears, harsh
criticism is heard, and Mr.. Maurice
Thompson, the Indiana poet and essayist,
is one of those who can find little in Tolls,
toi's character to admire. On the con-
trary he does not hesitate to call Tolstoi
a crank, and he justities the application
of this term by selecting certain incidents
in Tolstoi's life which he claims are the
acts of lunatic instead of being the
deeds of prophet. Writing to the Liter
CRY World, he says; 81 do not know
how it would be with you in
Boston, but in Indiana, if
should 90 to the house of man whose
estate is worth some hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, and should find that he
had sent his daughter into the corn field
to plow beside his field hands, and this
rich man should meet me at the door clad
like hermit, should sit down with me
and expound to me his doctrines of abso-
lutte non-resistance to evil, going to the
extent of saying that man ought
not to defend his wife or daugh-
ter from the brutality of the
vilest ruflian; and if then, TO cap the
climax, this rich man should presently
say to me; "Well, / must get to work, -
aud should fetch out shoemakers kit
and begin pegging away at a shoe, should
deem him crank and should not be
slow to say So" These references to Tol.
sto's life are based upon an article in the
June Century, by Mr.. George KEENAN,,
who there describes a visit to the Russian
novelist 1t is probable that these phases
of Tolstoi's life We're familiar to Howell s
when he penned his judgment. BY him,
no doubt, these acts were interpreted dit
ferently in his admiration for the man
and for his literary Workmanship. TO
Mr. Thompson, the latter talent apparent
ly counts for but little. A more sober
reading of the article by Mr. KEENAN, in
the Century, would doubtless, as the edi-
tor of the Literary IVOTld points out, con
vince this critic that he had not read the
testimony carefully. The whole incident
shows how widely opposite are the opin-
ions of professional essayists and writer's,
and how strongly these writer's, when
aroused, may be tempted to express them
selves.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02
An Illogical Position.

Socialism means the transfer to and
management of individual property and
enterprise by the State. The charge
which the Simon-pare socialist makes
against the present organization of society
is that profits are not distributed between
capital and labor in an equitable manner.
He therefore demands that the individual
CAPITALIST be abolished and that the State
be substituted in his place to distribute
profits according to the earnings
of each laborer. Reward according
to Justice" is the motto which the
socialist writer over his articles of belief.
State management therefore being the
condition of the socalistic millennium,
there can be no logic in the position taken
by Henry George and DR.. McGlynn, who
are so fierce in their denunciation of so
cialism. In so far as these agitators de
mand that the State shall take to itself
for the good of the coummity, any por-
ton of the value which land may possess,
Henry George and his disciples are social
| lists. They may not wish that the state
should control all industry they may be
opposed to State ownership OF manutac-
turing enterprises, and even to the state
ownership of land, yet when they demand
that the State shall confiscate what politi-
cal economists are accustomed TO call the
'unearned increment of land" which is
that value which land may possess apart
from the labor or capital put into it,
then they pass over the border line and
are clearly within the territory of the
| socialists. What is it that Henry George
claims 1t is that society rs at present or
ganized does not make fair distribution
of the value of land that the day laborers
and mechanics of city who toll with in
dustry and skill are adding indirectly
every year to the value OF the land of that
city. A vacant lot increases in yalne, not
ouly because the owner improves it, but
because of the thrift and enterprise OF the
whole community. 1t is therefore, only
fair, it is reasoned, that the community
should participate in the enjoyment OF
this increased value. The State, it is
furthermore claimed, is the only agent
which can affect this distribution; and
this it can do by taxing the property up TO
the full value of the unearned invest
ment. In a large measure this is
socialism and nothing else. 1t may or may
not be the course of justice that some such
policy should be adopted in order to coun-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

No denial, so far as we know, has ap-
peared of the recent statement that some
or all of the judges of our Supreme Court
have accepted and used free passes from
the Central Vermont this year. as hereto
fore There is no doubt whatever, in re
gard to the intent of the Legislature in
regard to this matter The allowance for
expenses voted to the judges in addition
to their increased salaries, was most dis
tinctly intended to deprive them of any
excuse for accepting passes. 1t was not
supposed to be necessary to couple with it
any legislative restriction because it was
not doubted that the distinct desire of the
people in regard to the acceptance Of
su ch courtesies from powerful ltigants
would be regarded by the judges. We
find it difficult to believe that this desire
has been disregarded by any judge. II it
has been, the next Legislature will be a
very different one from the last, If it does
not withdraw the allowance or enact a
distinct prohibition of the acceptance of
passes by any judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

In recent anniversary discourse the
Rev. A. ID. Mayo asks why is there this
constant stream of population pouring
from the rural districts into the city, thus
leaving the country village desolate and
deserted Why, he says, edo not thou
sands of well-to-do families in town take
up their abode in some accessible country
place, where they can have all things
comfortable and wholesome, instead of
swarming in the wretched boarding house
life which more fatally demoralizes Amer
lean womanhood than all the oppression
of all the men in America ?' His answer
to his own question was as follows:
Humanity cannot live on nature, but
lives chiefly out of itself Ninety-nine
people of every hundred of any sort of
condition, 90 where other people 90
throng the community where man
achieves his greatest triumphs and offers
his largest opportunities. In the old time,
the country town was the centre of human
interests in New Englrud; to day, the
city, including in that title the prosperous
village, is that centre. Say what we will
scold, or preach, or write, or sing; our
young people will push to the front where
the great human interest is at its height,
and abandon every community that per
mits itself to neglect the three vital condi-
tions of American liberalization, relig-
ion and good society.
There is something in this for the citi-
zens of the back villages to think of.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

teract the evils of land speculation, but
there is no reason for stunning the real
name of such action. The great trouble
in the discussion of the labor question of
word socialism. TO many it is a bug-a-
boo and for that reason, in all probable
ity the new political party organized by
Henry George has seen fit to dlsown the
application of the term. We are all of us
more or less socialistic. The common
school system of New England is an ex-
ample of pure State socialism. 1t should
therefore be the endeavor of everyone who
wishes to understand the significance of
this agitation to obtain exact notions OF
the watchwords of the movement.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

The president has appointed Prof. q.
Brown Goode, assistant director of the
National museum. to be commissioner of
fish and fisheries, vice Prof. S. F. Baird.
deceased Judge McCue, solicitor of the
treasury, who was first rendered the office,
declined it because of his lack of scientific
knowledge. 1t is reported in Washington
that Judge McCue wrote the president a
letter, in which he called his attention to
the law under which the office of commits
sioner was created dwelling on the re-
qurement of certain scientific attachments
in the incumbent. This is said to have
nettled Mr.. Cleveland, who resented the
implied criticism of his action in making
the appointment, and without further con
sideration he appointed Prof. Goode.
The appointment of Prof. Goode,
said Judge McCue to a World correspond
ent, "was as much of surprise to me as
it could have been to any one. | should
have been very glad TO have accepted the
position had felt that the technical re
quirements of the law could be compiled
within my case. | am not savant, but
find the study Of fish very interesting
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

1t is interesting to note that there is the
same tendency toward depopulating rural
sections at work among the agricultural
portions of old England as is operating in
portions of New England. An English
agricultural journal states that the num-
Der of farms which will be vacated in all
parts of the country at Michaelmas is en-
tirely without precedent Many farms
which have been occupied by successive
members of the same families for genera
tions are to be given up, as the tenants
find that they can only continue farming
at ruinous loss.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

A good many of the scholarly men who
care little about politics and who read the
Nation, accept the Nations estimate of
Mr.. Cleveland as a genuine, hightoned,
conscientious reformer But now and
then something happens which leads
them to question little the truth aud
honesty of this thick and thin laudator of
the president. Such thing happened
last week. The staff of the Smithsonian
Institute and scientific gentlemen inter-
ested in fish culture have confidently eX-
pected that Prof. Il. Browne Goode, who
had been Intimately associated since 1870
with Prof Baird in the study OF the habits
of food fish, and other questions connect
ed with the commission, and VINO was by
training and experience eminently quail
fled for the place, would be made Prof
Baird's successor as United States fish
commissioner. Prof. Goode, however,
while not interested in political matters,
has been in the habit of voting-when he
voted at all-the republican ticket. Ihis
fact destroyed his eligibility with the
president and instead of Prof. Goode
the president has appointed Judge Alex
ander McCue Judge McCue is Brooklyn
democrat, "A lawyer Of good ability, VINO
was made solicitor of the treasury as re
ward for party service aud because he
was friend of the Brooklyn democratic
boss, Mr. Mclaughlin, but he has never
been suspected, even by his most intimate
friends, of having any KNOWLEDGE OF either
fish or fisheries, or of possessing any Mt
ness for the position for which he has now
been named 1t is a purely partisan ap-
pontmeut TO an Office which carries with
IL the distribution of over 100000 year
but which ought to have nothing to DO
with politics, and which has not had in
the past. Yet this, we are told, is re-
form administration
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

Benjamin Franklin, IN one of his most
delightful essays, describes the custom of
house whitewashing which in his time
regularly took place in the month of May,
and remarks that the losses and destruc-
ton incident to two whitewashings are
equal to one removal. If this maxim be
applied to the whitewashing of our hon
orable attorney-gener Mr.. Garland, that
gentleman has occasioned as much loss
and destruction to the administration as
if he had been removed dozen times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

1t would have been the most dignfied
and sensible way for the Grand Army
boys at Wheeling to have marched right
along and either paid due respect to the
portrait of the president, as the head OF
the nation, or paid no attention to it. 1t
is true that the banner was swung across
the street that day by the editor of the
democratic paper, as a challenge to the
Grand Army, and that he accompanied
the performance with bullying DECLARE
tionS, and utterances offensive TO the
Union veterans But in yielding to pro
vocation and showing their resentment
IN that way, they did just what Editor
fancy and the democrats wanted them tc
do; and only helped to make martyr OF
Mr. Cleveland. This was not worth
while.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

A move is ON foot in New York to have
great international exhibition in that
city to celebrate the 4OOth anniversary of
the discovery of America by Columbus, in
1892 A great French exposition is to be
held in 1889 at Paris and it is thought that
New York's turn should come next Steps
have been taken by the Spanish govern
ment to observe 1892 as the great centen-
airy year and this country has been invit
ed to participate. 1t is stated that the
agents of the great railroads are now can
wasting to see what can be done in the
way of providing funds for the New York
exposition.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

That the Dominion authorities intend
to use force in Manitoba, is indicated by the
recent utterapces of Sir John Macdonald.
" 1t is time, " he said, that the provinces
should be taught that when her Majesty's
representative, with the consent of her
advisers, sees fit to disallow measure
which is derogatory to the interests of the
Dominion and the empire, they must
submit gracefully. am determined that
the construction of that road shall be
stopped, and if necessary, by British reg
ulars, On my suggestion the imperial
government has decided to establish a
garrison at Winnipeg, and troops will be
sent there shortly !" and when he was
told that armed rebellion will be caused
by the enforcement of such policy he
said eff rebellion is the result it will
not be my fault. l am determined 70 stop
the construction of the Red River Valley
railroad if it has to be done at the point of
the bayonet."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

Hon John w. Stewart was chosen vice
president of the eXtradition convention at
New York. In the discussion which fol-
lowed the reading of the resolutions, he
warned the convention that there was
danger that it might look out too much
for the interest of the criminal, and he
expressed the hope that the deliberations
OF the convention should tend to expedite
eXtradtion rather than to hedge it about
in such manner as to make it more diff
ficult to eXtradite criminals than it is at
present.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

A correspondent OF one of our Vermont
contemporaries i'll an article on the poll
tical situation comes to the front with the
assertion that the prohibition party is an
"eliicacious humbug placing its hideous
form in the way" that minority is not
realistic. 1t exists only in the fabricious
brain of some ignominious politician ~
and that we need for president zone who is
deeply imbedded by the ever puissant
ligeaments of cordial friendship" After
this it ought not to surprise us that he
should avow his conviction that these
astounding facts makes the prognostic
OF hope glimmer like an aeroline over the
vast dOmiuions of the occidental nation ~
OF course this must all be so but some
how it seems queer that nobody ever dis
covered it before.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-02

We sometimes hear it said that plat
forms are nothing but words, and there
fore of no account. But words are
things" and formal declaration of prin-
ciples and purposes, adopted by a truly
representative convention, must be ac-
cepted as an expression of the actual prin-
clples and purposes of the party so repre-
scented. We do, indeed, see conventions
so called which amount to nothing more
than committee meetings of bosses and
tricksters and which say whatever they
think Will look well in print, irrespective
of the true intents and purposes of the
party. But republican conventions are
not often of this stamp and a gathering
of responsible, independent and intelligent
delegates, is not apt to adopt platform
opposed to the views of the majority of
the votes of its party. The platform of
the Iowa republicans, elsewhere printed,
could not have been adopted in any but a
republican convention. Its declarations in
favor of a free ballot and free count protec-
ton of American industry; of civil service
reform of justice to disabled and Deepen
dent veterans, could only have been
adopted by a republican convention Its
arrangement of the administration its
declaration against monopolies its OPP
position to the saloon and support of pro
hibition are also worthy of attention, and
fairly express the desire and purposes of
the great mass of the republicans of the
Union. 1t seems to rs that the party
which expresses and maintains these
principles is worthy of the support of all
good men.